Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Base Widening. In Milwaukee, charged with disorderly conduct for trying to date two girls whose names he spotted in a newspaper story, ex-Convict Richard J. O'Connor, 27, explained that he was only trying to follow his parole officer's advice to "socialize...
Playing an obvious game of guilt by association, he implied that all ex-Communist witnesses were lying. His special target: Elizabeth Bentley, whose testimony about Communist espionage is needed to convict the Silvermaster spy ring that she exposed...
...Bomb Site. Four days later, police got more evidence. An ex-convict, Andrew Nelson, told them he had bought a case of dynamite with Washburn five days before the bombing. Washburn, Nelson said, had set off a practice bomb in the woods by attaching wires to the dynamite from the generator of his car. When the police checked the bomb test site, they found blasted trees. They also found matching wire in the woods and in Washburn's house. Washburn said he was in Houston the night before the murder and could not have planted the bomb. But through...
Last week in San Angelo, the grand jury indicted Harry Washburn and Andrew Nelson, the ex-convict for the murder of Helen Weaver. Harry Weaver was free of suspicion, thanks to City Editor Donahue. Said he: "Jack Donahue helped tip the balance for me . . . He gave me strength at a time when I could not find the strength I needed in myself...
Saturation Point. In Fresno, Calif., ex-Convict Manuel Eurich, 35, was sentenced to from 1 to 14 years in prison despite his plea that he had written worthless checks only after getting drunk in a bar while sitting out a thunderstorm when he was on his way to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous...